I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry.… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I hate that I got dealt shitty parents! I hate how you make me feel like scum! I hate that you’re always… — Adriana Law Copy Share Image
In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find… — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we’d both loved… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
“Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
“As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do. — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
“It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
“She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
“Unaware that he is only interested in the presumed parched pucker in her pants, she is more than happy to give him… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
“You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
“The old outcast gape the darkness and said: “The lonely man is a fire without fireplace…”.” — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.” — Karen Azinger Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not valuable if poor people share it with you. That's how it is, in Dublin, and probably in most other… — Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
